People who eat melon are in 70 - Chapter 2

The Jiang family lived on the second floor. There were more than a dozen families living on this floor. The balconies outside were full of sundries from each household. Some families with smaller houses even cooked meals in the corridor.

Although it was only ten o’clock, the hardworking housewives had already started preparing lunch. They gathered in groups of three or five to pick vegetables and gossip.

Jiang Youtao’s shout broke the tranquility.

Old Mrs. Wang, who was closest to the Jiang family, had stood up and said anxiously, “Girl, girl, what are you doing?” As she said that, she grabbed Jiang Youtao who was running forward.

Before running out of the door, Jiang Youtao had torn her hair and twisted her thigh hard at the door, which hurt so much that her eyes were filled with tears. Now that she was being held by someone, she recalled the original owner’s sadness and grievances, and tears fell down like pearls that had broken off the string.

Old Mrs. Wang watched the original owner grow up. Before the original owner’s biological mother died, she had a very good relationship with the original owner’s biological mother. In the years since Li Xiuqin came into the family, she has helped the original owner openly and secretly. It can be said that if she hadn’t been there, the original owner would have gone to heaven to meet the Buddha.

“Grandma Wang, please save me, my father wants to beat me to death, because he asked me to go to the countryside for Jiang Jiabao, I was not happy and said a few words to him, he said he would beat me to death!”

Jiang Youtao seemed to be crying out of breath, but in fact, except for her pitiful voice, she spoke in a clear and coherent manner.

She was born in an orphanage, where there were more monks than meat, and most of the children were forced to mature early. Each of them had deep or shallow schemes, and the stupid ones could not get ahead in the orphanage at all.

Jiang Youtao knew that the crying child got milk since she was a child, and she knew how to complain to her advantage.

Like the sobbing and stammering in idol dramas, they can’t get to the point, and people feel impatient just by listening to them. After the complaint, people subconsciously don’t want to pay attention to you.

The above are all Jiang Youtao’s experience.

Sure enough, when Mrs. Wang heard this, she quickly hid Jiang Youtao behind her. At this time, Jiang Anguo also chased out, holding the belt in his hand. He obviously heard what Jiang Youtao said, and his expression was awkward.

The people who were picking vegetables in the corridor stopped picking them. When they saw that something was wrong, they immediately surrounded them. Some of them even stood in front of Jiang Youtao and looked at Jiang Anguo with condemning eyes.

Mrs. Wang frowned: “Xiao Jiang, you have gone too far, right? Youtao is your own daughter.”

People these days are simple and honest. When the original owner was bullied, the neighbors supported her a lot. But every time Jiang Anguo sincerely admitted his mistakes in public and promised to treat his daughter well with a smile on his face, he would turn around and close the door. As an adult, he had many ways to torture the little girl. Over time, she became silent and did not resist.

After a few times, some neighbors really thought that Jiang Anguo treated his daughter well, while others did not think so. However, every family has its own problems. No one in the family supports this child. They can manage her for a while, but how can they manage her for a lifetime?

For example, Mrs. Wang secretly hoped that little Jiang Youtao would grow up quickly, get married early, and stay away from this family.

Now, Jiang Youtao broke the news that she replaced her stepmother’s son to go to the countryside. Everyone is both Shocked and angry, not loving their own daughter, loving someone else’s son? It’s ridiculous!

One can imagine how Jiang Youtao, who has no mother to love her, lives in a place where they can’t see!

The people present are all mothers, and the empathy of women at this time makes them feel very distressed. A motherless child is bullied by his biological father and stepmother like this, is the factory women’s federation a decoration! ?

When Jiang Anguo saw that he had angered everyone, he quickly put on a kind old father’s face and sighed:

“Auntie Wang, don’t listen to Youtao’s nonsense! She is my own daughter, how could I harm her? She said she wanted to go to the countryside two days ago, and now she regrets it. How can I let her do whatever she wants? Educated youth support national construction and go to the countryside to learn from poor and lower-middle peasants. This is a serious matter! How can I let her have a childish temper and be capricious! Besides, the name has been reported and cannot be changed even if she wants to.”

Jiang Anguo’s performance was simply that of a folk performing artist, showing the image of an old father who is helpless with his children and cannot educate them cruelly.

Everyone looked at Jiang Youtao with disapproval and a little disappointment.

Ha, if Jiang Youtao was not the person involved, she would have believed it.

Isn’t it just acting? Who can’t do it?

At this moment, she cried even harder, making people feel pity for her. Her voice and expression were full of disbelief: “Dad, I didn’t expect that you could do this for Aunt Xiuqin and Brother Jiabao…”

Which step?

This group of women who often gossip about other people seemed to smell something unusual. Why did Jiang Youtao only speak half of her words? It made people so curious! 

Jiang Anguo’s anger, which he had suppressed with great difficulty, was immediately provoked by Jiang Youtao’s teasing look. He gasped in anger and gritted his teeth: “What are you talking about! I did that for your own good! Okay, Youtao, stop throwing a tantrum here. You’re wasting everyone’s time. Come home with me!”

As he said that, he was about to step forward and pull Jiang Youtao violently. Several women stopped him in time and said earnestly: “Comrade Jiang, is there any hidden story behind this? Don’t wrongly accuse the little girl.”

Jiang Youtao took advantage of the fact that everyone’s attention was not on her and immediately gave Jiang Anguo a provocative smile . , seeing that his face was gloomy, he sobbed pitifully and said: “From childhood to adulthood, whether at home or outside, I have been like Brother Jiabao’s little maid. As long as I don’t listen to him, you will scold and beat me when you come back, and say that a girl like me is not worthy to be compared with him. It was not my turn to go to the countryside this time. It was you who asked me to go to the countryside in his place. Aren’t you doing this because he is the son of you and Aunt Xiuqin?”

Jiang Youtao’s words were like a drop of water dropped into a boiling oil pan. The onlookers exploded, and the neighbors talked about it, saying all kinds of things.

Aunt Li from the leftmost household spoke the loudest: “Oh! I told you, how could there be such a fool, he treats other people’s sons as treasures instead of his own daughter. Look carefully, this Jiang Jiabao and Jiang Anguo really look a bit alike.”

“Really, the eyebrows, eyes, and nose are just like they were carved from the same mold. Could Jiang Jiabao really be Jiang Anguo’s son?”

“You don’t know, do you? In the past, Li Xiuqin and Jiang Anguo were co-workers in the same workshop. Her husband is a consumptive who breathes heavily everytime he speaks. Can he really make a woman pregnant? ”

Romance scandals are always the most curious thing, especially the affair between Jiang Anguo and Li Xiuqin, who got married for the second time but found out that they had been having an affair for a long time. Everyone discussed it endlessly. Although there was no evidence, they believed that it was true.

Jiang Anguo didn’t bother to cause trouble for Jiang Youtao. His face was pale and blue, and beads of sweat covered his forehead. Nowadays, the work style is strictly enforced. Even couples have to keep a certain distance when walking on the street to avoid gossip.

If this matter gets out, Jiang Anguo’s position as workshop director may not be kept!

Li Xiuqin, who is hiding behind the door, is used to being a good person. She would never do things like beating or cursing her stepdaughter. She would only fan the flames in Jiang Anguo’s ear. He was also so nervous that his back was wet.

The people upstairs and downstairs were noisy here, and they all put down their work to come over to watch the fun, and once they arrived, they joined in the heated discussion.

Jiang Anguo did not expect things to escalate. He was so anxious that his heart was about to break, but he could not find an excuse for a while! With things developing like this, Li Xiuqin had to come forward. She opened the door and walked out with a sad and mournful look. She said to everyone: “I admit that I did not treat Youtao and Jiabao equally. People are all made of flesh and blood. Let me ask you, can you treat all your children equally? There is a difference in the length of five fingers. I didn’t expect Youtao to hate me so much that she would not hesitate to make up stories. “

After saying this, Li Xiuqin covered her face and started crying.

Jiang Anguo also came back to his senses and followed Li Xiuqin’s words, “Xiuqin’s husband passed away early, and her uncles and brothers bullied them, an orphan and a widow, and the mother and son were almost forced to death. You all know that.”

He showed a look of grief on his face, and said frankly, “Although Xiuqin and I are in the same workshop, we were not familiar with each other before we got married. Back then, Xiuqin and I got together through the Women’s Federation of the factory. You can go and check it out.”

Everyone looked at each other, embarrassed and ashamed for a moment, as to how much they believed it in their hearts, no one knew.

Li Xiuqin breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this. Her face was still sad, but the corners of her mouth couldn’t help but curl up.

Just when the couple was secretly proud of themselves, thinking that Jiang Youtao, a little girl, could not make a big fuss, the wife of Director Zhang of the Youth League Office, who had no idea what had happened, came back from outside. When she saw Jiang Anguo, she said happily, “Old Jiang, you two are really conscious, and you are a good role model for everyone. Last time you went to the Youth League Office in person to sign up for Youtao, and yesterday you asked Youtao to sign up for her brother, and everything was approved! The Street Office is going to give you a certificate of merit.”

“What?!” Li Xiuqin couldn’t believe it, and she was shaky all over, staring at Director Zhang’s wife.

“Are you so happy that you’re stupid? Really, I said that both of your children can go to the countryside to join the production team. You know that Youtao is going to the Northeast. You have to prepare well for the train tonight in the early morning. It’s very cold there. Jiabao’s is coming down, and he’s going to join the production team in the Northwest. Did you hear that clearly?” Director Zhang’s wife explained happily.

Li Xiuqin fell backwards with a plop, and Jiang Baoguo’s eyes were red. His eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at Jiang Youtao with a murderous look.

He was just about to teach Jiang Youtao a lesson when Peng Donglai, the director of the factory’s revolutionary committee, came with his men.

“Jiang Anguo, someone just reported that you and your wife Li Xiuqin had an improper relationship before you got married. Now please follow us and accept the investigation.”

The factory’s revolutionary committee had great power. They said they wanted to investigate anyone, even the factory director had to stand up and follow them.

Peng Donglai was a ruthless man, but he was also reasonable. If there was really nothing wrong, he could go to the interrogation room of the revolutionary committee for one night and come back, and there would be no change in his work in the factory.

But if there was really something wrong, it would be different. If he didn’t die, he would lose a layer of skin.

No one in the factory was not afraid of him. The corridor that was originally noisy was silent.

Jiang Anguo’s legs softened all of a sudden, but he pretended to be calm, “Okay, black can’t be made white, I have a clear conscience.”

Before leaving, Jiang Anguo glanced at Jiang Youtao, his eyes full of suppressed cruelty.

Jiang Youtao looked back at him calmly. Her heart was colder than that of the uncle who had been killing fish for ten years in the vegetable market. She would never feel guilty about this.

Since they wanted her to go to the countryside to replace Jiang Jiabao, the fool who had bullied the original owner for more than ten years, she would be blamed for setting them up. They couldn’t do it on the first day of the month and not let others do it on the fifteenth day, right? So yesterday afternoon she went to the Youth Educated Office to sign up for Jiang Jiabao. They were all children of Jiang Anguo, so how could they be so partial to one over the other? How unfair.

The original owner used to be Jiang Jiabao’s punching bag and maid. Whenever Jiang Jiabao was unhappy, he would arrest her and put her in the small dark room of the Revolutionary Committee. It was dark and small, and the original owner was hungry, scared and cold inside.

Jiang Anguo knew everything about the original owner’s experience, but not only did he not have the slightest intention of holding Jiang Jiabao responsible, he also asked the original owner to reflect on herself, saying that flies don’t bite eggs without cracks.

“My brother is going to the countryside. Aunt Xiuqin fainted with joy. Please help send her to the infirmary.” Jiang Youtao choked up, playing the role of a poor, helpless and kind-hearted little girl. After hearing this, everyone thought that Jiang Youtao was a sensible girl who did not bear grudges, and hurriedly sent Li Xiuqin to the infirmary.

Now, the people from the Revolutionary Society have gone far away, and those who came to watch the fun have also dispersed.

The place where Jiang Anguo found for the original owner to go to the countryside is a remote small town under Harbin Province, and the train will be at two o’clock in the morning tonight. After today, she will sit on the train, and the emperor will be far away from her. What can Jiang Anguo do to her?

Standing in the living room and looking around, Jiang Youtao went straight to Li Xiuqin and Jiang Anguo’s room.

These days, tickets are required for everything. Nothing can be done with money but no tickets. It is impossible for her to give the pension left by the original owner’s mother to that couple.